Life is loaded with choices, like: get a
job, go to college, join the military? Get married, date or stay single. Start
a family, hold off or be a family of two. Follow a career path, be an
entrepreneur or spend your days playing golf. Choices are everywhere. Some are
easy, some...not so much!In Scripture, Joshua
posed this question to the people of Israel:“…choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve …” Choose
whom you will serve - the Lord who has proven himself trustworthy or something concocted
and made by man. There comes a time in all of our lives when we have to choose
the things of the Eternal. Once you have chosen to be controlled by God’s Spirit,
reaffirm your choice everyday. Checkout the choices made in
this video. And,Click Herefor more
information on Mercy Ministries.Peace…Pastor
Keith #minmchurch #churchpearland

Communion. The Eucharist. The Lords Supper, where Jesus, the Christ, gave his disciples bread and wine during the Passover meal. Here Jesus commanded his followers to "do this in memory of me". This week, person after person filed by me and I
said the same refrain: “the body of
Christ broken for you – the blood of Christ shed for you”. I looked into
each person’s eyes as I repeated these words. Some looked at me with an empty
and hollow stare – as if to say, what? Others gazed back with a polite and obligatory
smile and nod. Others, still others, responded to my words: “blood of Christ shed for - YOU” with a
look that could only be captioned with the words: “Really! For me?” Look into
someone’s eyes this week and tell them about the miracle of the cross. Shalom...Pastor Keith #minmchurch #churchpearland

9.6.15 In the Genesis story of Cain
and Abel, Cain cynically answers God by saying: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Cain obviously didn’t think
he was. He was being a wise guy. Today he might have said, how the heck do I
know - it’s not in my job description to keep track of him! Let’s be honest:
There are plenty of days when just “keeping” your own life running is about all
you feel you can handle! But God invites us to love, stand
up for, and kneel down in humility, to serve others. Yes, I am called to be my
brother’s . . . my neighbor’s . . . even my enemy’s keeper. So when you look
into the face of another, friend or not, what do you see? The things that
unit you, or the things that divide you? A Sunday Thought…Pastor Keith#minmchurch #churchpearlandBrother by Brilliance

The Christian life is not just about a personal relationship with God, even if personal faith and responsibility are absolutely necessary. When too much emphasis is placed on a privatize salvation, we run the potential of getting so much wrong.

Avoid the draw to escape church citizenry. Becoming a disciple of Christ was never meant to be a solo expedition. Doing so means we expose ourselves to totally missing the opportunity to see the Eternal and His Holy Spirit in action: in real communities, in actual churches, in non-partisan politics, in obvious differences, in honest-to-goodness marriages, in authentic social discussions and during hard theological disagreements. You can't go it alone. Following Jesus shouldn’t be about intellectual assent, but rather it's communal activity, where-by we help ensure we don’t run the risk of missingthe Word who came to dwell among us. Consider that believing in Jesus and being mentored by the Holy Ghost is largely a group activity, albeit a…

Are you holding a close secret? Are you mum on something you're not supposed to tell anyone? If you’re like many folks I’ve met, you’re holding ‘something or other’ pretty close to your vest. And in doing so, as SNL’s Mike Myers would say: “Oh, I'm getting a little verklempt (farklempt). Most stuff is worth sharing, especially with the right person. While sharing personal “stuff” might seem like an invasion of privacy, it’s so worth the “vulnerability hangover”It’s worth being misunderstood and misrepresented. There’s desirability in discomfort. It's worth the death of your self-image and maybe even your brand. There’s benefit to owning up to what’s inside, no matter how difficult, because as the Psalmist wrote: Hidden things will always come out into the open. Secret things will come to light and be exposed.[1] Secrets bring bondage, sharing brings freedom. Freedom. Here’s what happens when you finally drop the act, when you finally admit that you're not fine, when you …

“..Like a sheep to a shearing, like a lamb to be slaughtered, he went—oh so quietly, oh so willingly..”The crucifixion of Christ, the awful marriage of human sinfulness and the pinnacle of divine grace, must remain an enduring mystery, a mystery of my faith — Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again. Good Friday calls on me to take another look, to remember, His death. ~Selah~ So in my exuberance to treasure all the beauty that is Easter, I must be careful not to scurry past Good Friday. Easter alone does not make Christianity unique. It’s Good Friday, coupled with Easter, where we find the uniqueness of Christianity. As you contemplate the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus, I pray that God will reveal his unfathomable love for you in new ways. May you know the love of the one who gave his life for you…#Pkes #MinMChurch #MetroLifeChurch